...................................The changing face of humour, your memories of:-
Comics- Male and Female
TV/Radio programmes
Films
Sayings
Did you get away with doing something funny?
In fact anything to do with humour'
HOW HAS IT CHANGED?
'You Lucky People' ----Tommy Trinder
I abhor bad language in jokes ,I don't see the need for it, but then there is 'Mrs Brown's Boys'
KOTC
BREATHE EASY = FRIENDSHIP
top of the morning too you KOTC Tommy Cooper ithought he was great my kinda magic.i remember being in a taxi with him and my mum and dad ,he threw his watch into the front of the taxi saying doesnt time fly,and as we got out ithought he was getting money out but he showed me a teabag and smiled handing it to the driver saying have a drink on me ,just like that hahahaha as he did.Janexx
From Tommy Cooper humour longlungs.------I went to the cemetery yesterday to lay some flowers on a grave.
As I was standing there I noticed 4 grave diggers walking about with a coffin.
3 hours later and they were still walking about with it................
I thought to myself ,they've lost the plot
Oh, I loved Tommy Cooper. He had the ability to make me laugh just by ...... being! I also liked Charlie Drake. Humour was gentler then, though no less funny. Shame a lot of it today relies too much on innuendo and double meanings, or even just plain obscenities. Don't get me wrong, a little rude is fine if it is funny but some seem to find rude funny just because it is rude. Certainly some of the jokes I see on here (not yours Your Majesty) would not have been acceptable in mixed company. Probably showing my age. x
From Tommy Cooper Humour Toci ----I knew a man who was suicidal. he was really depressed, so I pushed him in front of a train .He was chuffed to bits.
Sat here giggling! 
If you giggled at that one Toci, then here is another from Tommy Cooper Humour
--I was at a cash point yesterday when a little old lady asked if I could check her balance.Not being one to disappoint I gave her a big push and she fell over.
Yes! That also hit the spot. x
I always think it's amazing that the top two RADIO shows of the 1950's was David Nixons Magic show and Educating Archie...a ventriloquist act. I suppose you couldn't see his lips move.
I expect you remember the answer given by a famous actress when asked by Peter Brough: "Can you see my lips move?" The reply? "Only when Archie is speaking!"
John
That's just it, super humour Weymouth John
That was a form of imaginative humour that no longer exists, it was all in the mind what you thought about it.Cornish Brian
O nce went to a Canon & Ball concert and found it so not funny while my comanions found them hilarious. For me it had to be Jimmy Cricket the irish comic who always wore a silly hat and wellies on the wrong feet telling corny jokes. Always getting letters from his Mammy. He is still performing today touring round the country. Anyone remember him?
Jimmy Cricket walked into the hotel where I worked Evelene71 ,went to the receptionist to book in and said.
''Cricket'', she looked at him and said ''Cricket?'' she got the reply ''Yes Mr Cricket.''
I have also had the pleasure of his Mammies company
I thought Eric Morecambe was absolutely hilarious. I met him once when he opened our village May day festivitie and was surprised at how funny he was in real life. I have always enjoyed "I am sorry I haven't a clue" on the radio - still find it incredibly funny. As a young kid we used to listen to Round the Horn, Navy Lark and a couple of others but the Goon Show was a favourite. Thanks for stirring the lovely memories, king. Alison
Eric Morecombe ,when doing a summer season in Torquay would come into the bar some lunchtimes and sit at the end of the bar with half a bitter. Customers would go up to him and say ''It is Eric Morecombe , is'nt It?'' With a rather nonchalant reply ,through his pipe, he would say ''No''
A true funny genious. Good clean fun
A lot of these programmes are still on. You have to go to BBCiplayer and select radio 4e. We haven't had the tele on for months now.
Thank you very much for the information, CornishBrian. Alison
Hi Al Reid on the radio he was so funny
Dorothy xx
Al Reid newlands. The sausage maker from Salford who became the King of Comedy on the radio. Royal Variety performer, Do you remember his two catchphrases? 'Right Monkey'' and ''You'll be lucky''
Yes i remember and loved it when he did the nurse patient would shout nurse and we would hear footsteps and he would leave the patient and it would happen again how small things made us laugh then xxx
Silly little things always brought a smile to our faces newlands xxx
I have very vague memories of Arthur Askey, Old mother Riley but couldn't find them funny. Nowadays, I like Ronnie Corbett and also Jo Brand although she can get a little iffey at times. Dont anyone start coughing when they laugh - a nuisance.
Old Mother Riley used to frighten me annieseed, but O don't know why.
I know I was young when I saw her. My father asked me if I wanted to see a film. I suggested OMR and regretted it. I think she was a man - not sure.
Played by Arthur Lucan from 1934 -1954, 1954 -1977 by Roy Rolland
O only watched Old Mother Riley for one reason. Kitty. She was the girl of my dreams and she could have the cream off my milk any morning. She didn't have to do anything, just be in view. Aaaaaah.
Still dreaming?
Hilda Baker in the film about her trying to keep the pickle factory going. And when her lazy brother Eli told her to take things easier she said to him that she was neither 'knackered, knickered or knockered' !!! 
Hilda Baker is an icon of British comedy lovelight. Great star of the music halls. Catchphrase ''She knows you know ''
I loved his record 'I bent my assagi'
What did you all think of the Music Halls ???????????????
Old Time Music Halls, have you any memories of?
My mother used to love going and would take me with her. Not something I enjoyed I am afraid. Joyce
I never had the pleasure of going to any Joyce , saw some on TV that I quite enjoyed
I may have enjoyed them if I was older but only in my teens in the fifties at the time when pop stars came into view. My favourite was Buddy Holly. Loved Billy Fury and Jonny Ray who wore a hearing aid but belted out a song named Look Homeward Angels, Lonnie Donnigan with his skiffle Group and many others It was great being a teenager in those days . Joyce
I went out with a young lady who loved Billy Fury. One night he was appearing in Coventry and we drove all the way from Torquay to see him. We had to queue in the freezing cold to get tickets. The show was amazing Billy Fury was top of the bill. Big Popper. Vince Eager, Marty Wilde,Vernon Girls and a host of others. Then a drive back to Torquay .Well worth it though Joyce
Many years ago when I was young my dad used to be in a concert party, taking off Norman Wisdom,dressed in the same suit with cap. Then they used to do a quick change becoming The Parsons of Puddle telling jokes,Then doing a Tap dance, He was a lovely talented little man. Don't know what age group some of you are, But Dad told me years ago that some one called Carol Levis wanted him to come on his shows,he was a talent spotter , bit lke Simon Cowell in the 30s But his Mom wouldn't let him go because, she wanted all of her sons pay packets on the table each Friday, What a different track my life would have taken, He may not have been my DAD ,that very special man in my life.Oh how I would have missed out, I do go on!!! .X
Carol Levis was one of the greatest talent spotters of all time. Norman wisdom - a comic genius, a true great junespoon. Please carry on going on!
At 16 got tickets to b in the audience for The Six Five special in the Isle of Man where I shared a week with friends Sheila, Dorothy and Kathleen. Great show. Dave Clark five. Lonnie Donegan, Lita Rosa, Billy Fury. Kathleen had a lovely voice and went on to have a son Howard Donald of the Take That Fame. On the downside it was Sheila who started my smoking addiction. Joyce
Great shows in those days
Yes they were, I could smell the smell of Dads make up box, for his concert partys, Key words on the cuff of his shirt as a promt,, all coming back.
To the Treasured Memories of Margaret June Barney
